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Watched Masters of the Universe last weekend. Oh boy…

Masters of the Universe (1987, USA)
Director: Gary Goddard
Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Adventure/Teen

The plot makes no sense and it’s filled with holes so I won’t bother telling it to you. Instead I asked myself couple of questions and answered them:

Where is Orko ?
- Gwildor replaced Orko as a comic sidekick.
Why ?
- Probably because they did not have the technology to create Orko.

Where is Prince Adam ?
- Nowhere. He-Man is all the time in his superform although he shouts at the end, “I have the power!”.

Why does Skeletor has large army of stormtroopers borrowed straight up from Star Wars -movies ?
- Yes, why? That is something totally unprecedented.

Where is Battle Cat (aka Cringer) or many other major characters known from the series ?
- Well, the movie follows the animation series only a little.

Closing comments:
What you get is a movie that somehow resembles the Masters of the Universe with “stormtroopers” and same kind of music borrowed rom Star Wars but it actually doesn’t remind anything!

Worth watching?
If you’re looking for decent turkey, you’ve got watch Masters of the Universe. It has blonde muscular Swedish actor sputtering bad english, rubberfaced Skeletor, 80s teen movie action and of course, He-Man himseld. For me, that was enough.

There is currently a new He-Man and the Masters of the Universe -movie in production (produced by Joel Silver). It will have visual effects done in the similar way as with the movie “300″. It has the potential but I fear the worst… I found couple of interviews (1) (2) about the new film and it seems they just might be doing it right. At least, in the way how the new Transformers film turned out to be.

Here is some great moments from the movie I uploaded to YouTube:

I’ll be spinning some records on saturday at Cafe Kauppayhtiö as part of “Linnunlaulupubin joulukalenteri“. DJ Maceo had to cancel his gig so we’ve got some dj’s backing up.

“Vanha Hippi” (old hippie) is a song by Top Ranking Eric & The Revolutionaries. It isn’t the the first reggae song in Finland but among the first ones, yes. It appears on the first volume of “Suomi Rock ‘80″ compilations released by Poko Records.
Most of the older Finnish reggae stuff aren’t any good (e.g. Avaruuslintu – Kesä Reggae) but this “Vanha Hippi” is a great success mostly because of the controversial and amusing lyrics! Definitely a good source for vocal samples (tip!).

As said before, the easiest way to get it is to acquire a copy of Suomi Rock ‘80 compilation but we’re here @ KynyNasty so nice people that we offer you the opportunity to get it right here.

Top Ranking Eric & The Revolutionaries – Vanha Hippi (Johanna JHNS 128)

If you’re the owner of the song/the artist performing it/don’t want it to be put online, please message us and we’ll remove it as soon as possible.

A brief history of Finnish reggae (published in Ylioppilas-lehti 09/2001, in Finnish)

This weekend Rovaniemi has more than enough club events for anyone. Probably too much, some events will bite the dust for sure. Which club would you go? Btw, dubline is free even though it says 3,5€

This week I discovered (well, friend of mine found) a very nice track called ‘En Route A Vienna’ by Maltese producer ‘Orient Express’. Not much information about him though. Very exciting track indeed. I think it stands next to Alden Tyrell’s productions if not outdo! You can download shortened version from Squadron Festival – Download page.

One of my favorite producers at the moment ‘Calvin Harris’, has done couple of excellent tracks lately. One of those tracks is produced for ‘The Mitchell Brothers’ and it is called ‘Michael Jackson’. Listen to it on their myspace and watch the video here. More Calvin goodness is available on new release ‘BBC Radio 1 Established 1967′ which is a collection of covers especially recorded for Radio 1. Calvin’s track is a cover of Jamiroquai’s ‘Stillness In Time’. Vocoderheaven! Hear it.

Interesting thing is that Calvin Harris has produced two tracks for Kylie Minogue’s forthcoming album ‘X’. I’ve heard the other one already and it’s surprisingly good! Trademark synths by Calvin. Lovely!